The Essence of Creativity
The edge of nothingness is always near, moving when you move, waiting when you wait. Do you welcome it with your silence and your indifference? Or do you battle it at every breath and every thought and every action? Fill
When Did Prosthetics First Appear
As you write your historical fiction piece, have you wondered when prosthetics first appeared? Could they be referenced in your, say, 1665 novel? Yes, they go back 3,000 years and more. Ancient Prosthetics
Digital Age, Let Me Introduce You to the Stone Age
Our history is a history of arcs and circles. We are brought back over and over to things that became irrelevant or obsolete or disfavorable, but were given new life by an new intersection of those arcs and circles. Charge Your
Peter Borders
This is the story, in his own words, of the military service of my great-great-great-grandfather, Peter Borders, one of my Revolutionary War ancestors. He re-upped several times, even substituting for others, and near the end was taken prisoner of war
Summer Reads for Visual Creatives
12 great new summer reads for creatives
A Cure for the Plague
Times never really change. Miracle cures have existed for centuries. This cure for the plague didn’t help the probable 100,000 who died of the plague in London in 1665/6. A Cure for the Plague
What better place to start a story than with the dead?
Archaeologists start excavating 3,000 skeletons from Bedlam burial pit at Crossrail Liverpool Street